Recent Updates to BMP-REALCOST and UD-Culvert

BMP-REALCOST, UDFCD’s tool for evaluating whole life cycle cost of BMPs, has been significantly improved with the following updates:

Rainfall statistics per NOAA Atlas 2,Volume 14;

Land use runoff and BMP effluent EMCs per the latest information from the International BMP Database,

Volumetric runoff coefficients based on WQ-COSM analysis,

Volume reduction for bioretention and EDBs based on SWMM analysis,

Maintenance costs based on local experience, and

Default land value costs based on 2016 Denver tax assessors database.

In addition to this list of updates, E. Coli was added to the list of constituents for evaluation and a revised user’s guide including equation documentation is now available.
A new version of UD-Culvert is also available on our software page. Version 3.05 includes a minor correction to the calculation of the downstream soil covered depth on the profile tab.
All our software and workbook tools can be downloaded from here.